Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...describe my reaction to "The Strike-Out King" [Aug. 31]. My indignation is not directed against Pitcher Harry Murphy but against those adults who have made winning such an issue that children's baseball, once an enjoyable sport, becomes such an ordeal that a little eight-year-old boy wets his pants in public from fear. And what is worse is that it is not physical fear of pain; it is fear of certain humiliation...
Legendary Lancelot. There are other characters-Augustus Pitou, the "King of the One-Night Stands," for whom Office Boy Hart wrote his first play at the rate of one act a night; legendary, spiteful Producer Jed Harris, who received Hart while standing stark naked in his hotel suite. But the greatest of all is probably Playwright George S. Kaufman, legendary Lancelot of the Algonquin Round Table. When Kaufman agreed to collaborate with the unknown young Hart on Once in a Lifetime, there started a gentle comedy of errors almost as funny as the play itself. If Kaufman hated anything...
...Formula. When Bryant, as his family called him, was growing up in Dorchester, on the southern edge of Boston, his hobby was chemically analyzing his mother's laundry soap. The stench forced his photoengraver father to build him a lean-to lab outside the house. But the boy chemist's talents got him into famed Roxbury Latin School (he was the most precocious science student in 20 years) and through Harvard in three years. He married the daughter of Harvard's top chemist; in 1931 Professor Conant himself took over the department. "Bryant," said his mother once...
...which can be changed by home and school. With his wiggly blocks and foolish questions. the guidance man strikes some parents as a dangerous bore: George will go to Harvard no matter his score. Let George do it-if he can. Guidance counselors are after bigger game: the brainy boy from a culture-poor family who always thought he was "dumb," the bright laggard who needs to be prodded. To Conant. guidance is "the keystone of the arch of public education...
...Case of Julia Walton, a boy testifies against his mother (Nina Foch) as she goes on trial accused of the murder of her husband...